Beef & ADC polls
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: March 31, 2015 -
The shocked and crestfallen state BJP functionaries must have realised that the party may not win a single seat in the ADC polls as Rajnath Singh has upset the political applecart by announcing that the NDA is going ahead with a nation-wide ban on cow slaughter.
What a home minister says carries weight and reflects the government policy. Singh whose identical bill was shouted down in 2003 will firm up to pass it this time.
But he has scripted the rout of the BJP in the ADC polls. The Congress and other major players will expose the BJP asanti-tribal and anti-Christian which is out to destroy the tribal identity and custom.
It will be a big surprise if the BJP wins a single ADC seat in the circumstances. Apart from the tribal sentiment on religion and custom beef is a major delicacy in all families in the 6 ADCs.
Being a government policy a damage control clarification now will have no taker and men like Ibobi, Gaikhangam will exploit it to the hilt.
Depriving the non-Hindus and atheists of beef will be against the letter and spirit of secularism.
It will be a losing battle against Islamic terrorism as well while the Christians in the NE will distance themselves from the BJP which will be a crippling setback to Modi's plan to instil a sense of involvement and belonging among the denizens of this region.
The latest loud thinking comes in the backdrop of the growing resentment of the well orchestrated insidious campaign to impose Hindi on the non-Hindi speaking sections.
Though cow slaughter is banned in two states already and India may soon ban it the practicability is seriously questioned.
Who is going to check cow slaughter and open sale of beef in non-Hindu villages and localities?
Most of the NE states and villages are non-Hindus and police as in case of other wild animal slaughters cannot make their presence felt.
India is a rainbow country where secularism is practised. It will be a sorry pass if the BJP abuses the brute majority to degenerate India to a Hindu nation.
The rank and file in the state BJP should read the writing on the wall which clearly says that the party may not win a single seat.
And the NDA will not review its well scripted national policy to win some seats in Manipur.
(Guest Editorial by Iboyaima Laithangbam)
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